| dc.description.abstract | This study sought to understand transgender people from access to formal education and
their Christian, Catholic and evangelical religious experiences. It analyzed the possible
forms of contribution of these markers to the intra and interpersonal relations of these
people in contemporary times. Since the mid-1970s, a significant number of researchers
have dedicated themselves to understanding human beings through sexuality. However,
the vast majority are studies aimed at homosexuality and not transsexuality. Content such
as education, religiosity, sexual repression, bio-power and social exclusion, related to the
concepts of sex, sexuality, sexual orientation, gender identity and transsexuality were
worked on. The qualitative methodology supported the semi-structured interviews,
carried out with ten transsexual men and women aged between twenty-one and fifty-five
years old, with different levels of education, living in the Greater Recife region. With this
sample, we sought to achieve a plurality of experiences. Various forms of difficulties
faced by transsexual people were pointed out, mainly, in family, religious, educational
and labor market spaces, such as prejudice, discrimination, invisibility and exclusion.
From the Discourse Analysis applied to the data obtained from the interviews, it was
found that, to a large extent, formal education was a marker capable of influencing them
in the choice of belonging to a religion, besides that, for these people, that is a legitimate
way and capable of strengthening them to face the unpleasantness experienced in the
search for respect and the conquest of citizenship, because as transsexuals they suffer
because they are not framed in heteronormativity. | eng |
